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Dudley Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$362k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$527kEducation$336kHuman Services$222kYouth Development$122kHealth$92kReligion$63kHousing & Shelter$60kRecreation & Sports$57kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $118k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC$75,000
BRIDGE STREET MISSION$50,000
MARATHON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$50,000
PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA INC$15,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC$15,000
LIBERTAS INSTITUTE$12,500
CHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM$10,000
MARY MOTHER OF GOOD HELP - HMONG CATHOLIC CHURCH$10,000
MARATHON COUNTY$10,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$10,000
THE NEIGHBOR'S PLACE$10,000
SOUTH AREA FIRE AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE DISTRICT (SAFER)$10,000
NORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION$7,900
LEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM$7,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MIDSTATE INDEPENDENT LIVING CHOICES INC: $4k → 10%WISCONSIN DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%STABLE HANDS INC: $20k → 11%WAUSAU CHILD CARE INC: $6k → 11%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 33 repeat orgs$440k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
44

Total granted

$1.3M
$381k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+4%

Still filing today

61%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHealthPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • NT
    NORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $211k · revenue +9%
  • PA
    PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $193k · revenue +765%
  • MC
    MARATHON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    3× · 2022–2025 · $110k · revenue ×14

Funded once

  • WY
    WOODSON YMCA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +20%
  • ROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • SH
    STABLE HANDS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -71%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Wausaukee Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Wisconsin World Affairs Council Inc
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3
Rock River Repertory Theatre

Inspire artists, audiences, and our greater southern wisconsin community to celabrate the art of theatre.

Arts & Culture
4
Wausau Central Wisconsin Sports Authority Inc

To promote community awareness through sport activities. the organization also sponsors the badger state games (winter and summer) and other events. these events attract thousands of competitors and visitors from across the state and…

Recreation & Sports
5
Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra Inc

The central wisconsin symphony orchestra's mission is to enrich, engage and educate through the power and performance of live music. the vision of the central wisconsin symphony orchestra serves as a center of artistic excellence; through…

Arts & Culture
6
Wisconsin Public Radio Association Inc

The purpose of the wisconsin public radio association (wpra) is to support wisconsin public radio by engaging in cooperative fundraising, stewardship and advocacy. the wpra generates support through programs and participatory activities…

Arts & Culture
7
Wisconsin School Music Association Inc

Our mission is to provide statewide music programming activities, offer leadership and support for school music programs, and advance music as an integral part of the school curriculum and community life.

Education
8
Wisconsin Council On Economic Education Inc

To enhance the quality and quantity of economics education in wisconsin.

Social Science
9
Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Foundation Inc

The wisconsin broadcasters association foundation contribution to broadcasting in wisconsin encompasses a strategic, long term vision for enhancing, promoting and supporting the broadcast industry by encouraging the preservation of…

Arts & Culture
10
Central Wisconsin Indigenous Peoples Day
Arts & Culture
11
Waukesha County Community Foundation

Wccf is a pool of permanent endowment and project funds created primarily by and for the people of waukesha county to provide grant support to charitable organizations. the intent of the foundation is to serve a broad spectrum of the…

Philanthropy
12
Wisconsin Childrens Choir

Provide young singers with a choral experience where excellence is valued. Singers have an opportunity to develop their full musical potential and increase their self- esteem through the success that comes from working together.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids From Wisconsin Ltd; the most unlike its peers is Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 87 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/51
Grantees still filing
26/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $210,900 · OtherNORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCWOODSON YMCA INC: $100,000 · OtherWOODSON YMCA INCNORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $57,000 · OtherNORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGENEIGHBORS PLACE INC THE: $52,500 · OtherNEIGHBORS PLACE INC THEBRIDGE STREET MISSION INC: $52,500 · OtherBRIDGE STREET MISSION INCTHE SALVATION ARMY: $50,000 · OtherMONK BOTANICAL GARDENS: $40,000 · OtherLEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM INC: $37,438 · Other+52 more: $376,075 · Other+52 morePERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $193,000 · Arts & CulturePERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION …MARATHON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $109,500 · Arts & CultureMARATHON COUNTY HISTORICAL …CHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM INCTHE WAUSAU CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC: $15,500 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $44,783 · Arts & Culture+10 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA INC: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF THE NORTHWESTERN GREAT LAKES INC: $6,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,800 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC: $55,000 · Public BenefitLibertas Network: $12,500 · Public BenefitPATRIOT K9S OF WISCONSININC: $10,000 · Public BenefitDC EVEREST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationWAUSAU SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · EducationROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · HealthCHRISTMAS IN JULY CHARITY: $5,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $4,000 · HealthJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC: $45,525 · InternationalGOOD NEWS PROJECT INC: $5,000 · International
Other$976,413Arts & Culture$422,783Youth Development$107,800Public Benefit$77,500Education$62,500Health$59,500International$50,525

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $210,900 over 3y, 19% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $193,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetMARATHON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $109,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA INC: $100,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetWOODSON YMCA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM INC: $60,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC: $55,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNEIGHBORS PLACE INC THE: $52,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDC EVEREST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC: $45,525 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM INC: $37,438 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC: $26,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTABLE HANDS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCHILDCARING INC: $20,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WAUSAU CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC: $15,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetOPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWAUSAU SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetWISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLibertas Network: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHmong American Center Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRIB MOUNTAIN BOWMEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetPATRIOT K9S OF WISCONSININC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWAUSAU FESTIVAL OF ARTS INC: $8,500 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetCENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS: $7,660 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetWAUSAU CHILD CARE INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF THE NORTHWESTERN GREAT LAKES INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTMAS IN JULY CHARITY: $5,500 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetKeep Area Teens Safe Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMOSAIC OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetGOOD NEWS PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMIDSTATE INDEPENDENT LIVING CHOICES INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAUSAU NORDIC SKI CLUB INC: $4,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCENTERSTAGE BAND AND SHOW CHOIR INC: $3,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetWAUSAU EVENTS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Northcentral Wisconsin Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRAPTOR EDUCATION GROUP INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMARATHON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSOUTH BEACH CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBADGER BOYS STATE INCORPORATED: $1,800 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMIT PLAYERS THEATRE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCENTRAL WISCONSIN CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Ba & Esther Greenheck…Judd S Alexander Foun…Dwight and Linda Davi…Green Bay Packers Fou…Incrediblebank Founda…Bell Family Charitabl…Church Mutual Insuran…Lewitzke Foundation I…Abbybank Foundation I…Wisconsin Public Serv…Paul & Ruth Schultz F…
Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin IncWI81.2× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc · Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation · Judd S Alexander Foundation · Dwight and Linda Davis Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Incrediblebank Foundation Inc · Bell Family Charitable Foundation I · Church Mutual Insurance Company Foundation Inc · Lewitzke Foundation Inc · Abbybank Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Paul & Ruth Schultz Fdn Agy

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dudley Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dudley Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Dudley Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Dudley Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 87 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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